QUALITY STREET : A COMEDY IN FOUR ACTS, ILLUSTRATED BY HUGH THOMSON (SIGNED)

London, England: Hodder and Stoughton, 1901. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Near Fine (slipcase). Hugh Thomson. Small Folio, 12.5 x 9.75 in., pp. vii, [1] (characters), 198. Illustrated with tipped-in water-color frontispiece and twenty-one additional tipped-in paintings by Hugh Thomson. Limited edition, #433/1000. Signed by the artist on limitation page. Contemporary vellum boards ruled with two gilt and three purple frames, gilt title, and an elaborately decorated gilt scene based on Thomson's art to front. Gilt title and decoration to spine. Gilt top-edge; fore-edge and bottom-edge untrimmed. Burgundy silk ties. Very light rubbing to boards. Spotting to right half of spine. Front board very lightly bowed. Captioned tissue-guards to plates. Light age-toning to pages. Includes laid in announcement of Hugh Thomson's 1913 exhibition of the original watercolor drawings for Quality Street at The Leicester Galleries. Olive-green cloth-covered slipcase with red interior. A lavish presentation of Quality Street, a comedy in four acts by Scottish playright and novelist J. M. Barrie (1860 - 1937), which was written before his more famous work Peter Pan. The story is about two sisters who start a school "for genteel children". The original Broadway production opened in 1901 and ran for only 64 performances.

Hugh Thomson (1860 - 1920) was an Irish Illustrator born at Coleraine near Derry, Ireland. He is best known for his pen-and-ink illustrations of works by authors such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and J. M. Barrie. Thomson inaugurated the Cranford School of illustration in 1891.